The fluke fishing remains steady around Long Island. There are plenty of fish and plenty of action for anyone who is fluking. As it was last week, there are still not as many keepers around. Read the rest of this entry »
July 20, 2009 - Another week passes and the fluke reports are still proving the action is there. Whether you hit the bay or the ocean, the fishing is still good. Read on to get the lateest fluke fishing report. Read the rest of this entry »
Many great reports have flooded the phone lines and emails at Causeway Bait and Tackle. This fishing report will include locations in and around Jones Inlet as well as the back bays, channels and creeks along the South Shore of Nassau County. Read the rest of this entry »
Greetings. We hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend. We have some great news to report so on to it. Our deepest condolences and sympathies go out to the friends and family of the fisherman who lost his life last week in Broad Channel. We want to remind everyone to use extreme caution and continue to practice safe fishing.
As you know, the 2nd half of the fluke season opened up last week and the fishing has been good in both the bays and the ocean. Your best bet for keepers… Read the rest of this entry »
Much of the same with the fluke. Fishing is very good action wise with a few keepers in the mix but that all comes to an end on Monday, June 22nd at midnight. Hopefully something changes between now and then but stay tuned and we’ll report any changes if they arise.
The fluke fishing has remained consistant along the South Shore of Long Island and in the bays. As reported last week, the hot spots remain in the Swift, Haunts and Broad Creeks as well as the Merrick Bay. Additional reports have come in from Rowboat Alley. The key is to fish… Read the rest of this entry »
If you are looking to go fluke fishing around Long Island, don’t waste any time and hit the South Shore. The bays are red hot. Due to the strict Fluke Regulations in place (21″ minimum) they have been hard to come by. Read on to see where and what is being used… Read the rest of this entry »
Unfortunately the Fluke season came to an end at midnight last night, but all in all we would have to say that we had a pretty good season.
The last Fluke we weighed in from the 2008 season was the BIGGEST we have EVER weighed in… a 13 plus pounder caught by our customer Tom Schwender while fishing out of Shinnecock Inlet!
Stay tuned and keep an eye on our Fishing Blog, we’re in the process of writing a “Year in Review” areticle for this past season!
For those who STILL WANT TO FISH FOR FLUKE… the “Laura Lee” (party boat sailing out of Captree) has purchased additional Fluke Quota from New York State and will continue to fish for Fluke… at least untill they catch the amount they are allowed.
UH-OH… a dramatic decrease in fish all of a sudden. In the past few days, the ocean fishing has significantly dropped off in our area. Hard to say why and in our opinion, these fish did NOT leave, but maybe just moved. Hard to imagine that a body of fish THAT large could just up and dissapear… our first guess is that they just moved somewhere. Considering that those fish seemed to be holding on a body of Squid that was around, we would have to guess that the Squid moved and so did the Fluke. We noticed that the commercial Squid boats have moved somewhere too, so if you can find the commercials that are squid fishing you have a good chance of finding the Fluke too. Let’s see what happens in the next few days with people doing a little scouting around, someone is bound to find them!
However, the fishing in the bays seems to have stayed rather consistent with many Fluke to be caught but finding those keepers is more difficult inside. Sounds like the short to keeper ratio is around 30 or 40 to one. Some of the better reports have come from the south end of Swift Creek, and the channel the runs along the West side of Wantagh Parkway around the second bridge… pictured below inside the red circle.
Fluke Fishing Spot
If you’re going to look around in the ocean, we would still recommend using the large baits like live snappers, whole squid and large strip baits (Sea Robbin, Dog Fish bellies, Bunker or Mackerel Strips etc.). If you’re going to try jigging, try the Braid Thumper Jigs, Bucktails and Fluke Bullets… ALL with Teasers above them.
Don’t forget to bring the Gulp baits too…. they DEFINITELY WORK!!!!
This is what we’ve been hearing for the past week…. “I had the BEST Fluke fishing day of my life”!!!
Right now, we have been hearing about some of the best Fluking EVER, with fish in the 6 to 10 pound range being caught every day! Similar to last week, the deal is to find the HARD BOTTOM such as a reef or a wreck for example. The Hempstead Reef, Atlantic Beach Reef, McAllister and Cholera have been outstanding around the outsides of the hard bottom.
Larger baits like whole Squid, Peruvian Smelts, large strip baits and LIVE SNAPPERS have been hard to beat either on a jig or simply on a plain old Fluke rig. However, sounds like the jigs and teasers are producing more fish but fewer keepers and the MEAT is producing the slobs.
Joe, from the shop, fished Sunday aboard the Tradewinds in Captree for a decent day with 2 keepers. On Monday he fished aboard the Superhawk in Point Lookout and “had the best Fluking of his life”! He had a limit of Fluke up to 7 pounds and just missed out on the pool! Joe was fishing with small Butterfish for bait (he cast netted them himself) and other people on the boat had great success with whole Squid too.
Yesterday we weighed a couple fish for Joe Mistretta and his partner Tim Luckas fishing on Joe’s boat the “Sea Cat”. They were fishing with live Snappers on Fin Strike Bucktail rigs on the deeper side of Hempstead Reef when they caught their limit of Fluke up to 9 plus pounds!!! Below is a picture of their catch from yeaterday.
Mike Sculley, fishing with Richy “Crazy Legs” outside the Hemstead Reef, brought a nice 7 lb 9 oz Fluke to our scale on 8-14-08… picture below.
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